Balsam is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BALSAM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to soothe; to embalm
• To treat or anoint with balsam; to relieve, as with balsam; to render balsamic.
• embalm
NOUN:
• a resinous substance obtained from various trees and used to soothe and heal
• an aromatic resinous substance, such as balm, exuded by various trees and shrubs and used as a base for certain fragrances and medical preparations
• a tree or shrub which yields balsam.
• a herbaceous plant cultivated for its helmeted pink or purple flowers.
• type of fragrant balm
• A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil.
• A species of tree (Abies balsamea).
• An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine.
• Anything that heals, soothes, or restores.
• any seed plant yielding balsam
• any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes
• an ointment containing a fragrant resin
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to anoint with balsam (an aromatic, resinous substance)

Words related to BALSAM

balsamed13 balsamic14 balsaming14 balsams11 balsamy14

Words that contain BALSAM

balsams11 balsamy14 balsamed13 balsamic14 balsaming14 opobalsam15 balsamier13 opobalsams16 balsamroot14 balsamiest14 balsamroots15 xylobalsamum28 balsamiferous20 xylobalsamums29 balsaminaceous20

How to use BALSAM in a sentence

• Pierre Radisson lay on his balsam bed, with nothing over him now but the gray sky and the spruce-tops.
• Occasionally, after the third day, she would thrust her blind face out of the balsam and sniff the air when Weyman was at the cage, making friends with Kazan.
• A hundred yards away was the black edge of the spruce and balsam forest.
• They gathered pine for fuel and cut balsam boughs for beds.
• CHAPTER FOUR In the edge of the balsam and spruce Langdon and Otto sat smoking their pipes after supper, with the glowing embers of a fire at their feet.
• Among other things he had eaten perhaps half a quart of spruce and balsam needles.
• But the scent was that of a he-bear, and it drifted strongly up a rock-cut ravine that ran straight down toward the balsam patch in which he had hidden the caribou.
• Then he crawled into his balsam shelter, drew his blankets about him, and fell asleep.
• A few minutes more and a clump of balsam and spruce loomed up out of the plain ahead of them.
• The buckskin bags in the balsam shelter grew heavier and heavier.
• By heating they may be made to grow outward, and as more balsam is imbibed they gradually diminish, and finally disappear.
• Each breath of air we drew was rich with the odor of pine and fir, mint and balsam.
• For example, in the extreme northern districts the spruce and the balsam fir are native.
• One of the most pleasing uses to which the balsam fir is put is as Christmas trees.
• The balsam fir seldom grows higher than 50 feet or thicker than 12 inches.
• The best wood for it is the body of a yellow birch, and, next to that, a green balsam.
• From the balsam lean-to he brought out a small rubber bag and a towel.
• The deep-green bark, striped with gray, is full of balsam, or resin, known as balm of Gilead or Canada balsam, and highly valued as a cure for diseases of the lungs.
• The children encircled it, wondering, and the sweet odour of the balsam filled the house.
• The wine is all out of your system, and there is balsam in your blood.
• The air was charged with the perfume of balsam and spruce and other sweet odours of the forest.
• The bed of fragrant balsam and spruce boughs, the smell of the fire and the soft candle-light combined to give it an indescribable atmosphere of luxury.
• She took the sweet oil, the balsam, and some linen.
• The palm is a tall and beautiful tree, the balsam a mere shrub.
• He has lost the spear, and further has sustained a grievous wound from its point dealt by Klingsor, which no balm or balsam can heal.
• Gilead is the name of a mountain group of Palestine, celebrated for its balsam or balm made from herbs.
• She drew herself back from the balsam and looked sideways up, to see what the shoes belonged to.
• There, half hidden by a thicket of balsam, Holcomb had discovered her pitiful little figure huddled in the rough ulster.
• Here were some of the real Russian Balsam trees, the most beautiful in shape I had ever seen.
• My balsam, she answered, has done better than I expected it would do.
• I dressed it as well as I could with balsam, then bound it tightly up with a white handkerchief.
• They put in a floor of balsam boughs and spread their blankets on it.
• For perhaps a mile he watched them going down through the manzanita and buck brush toward the massed line of balsam firs that marked the nearest edge of the heavy timber line.

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